Although Turkey began its transition to democracy as early as the 1950s, it is still far from having reached a level of consolidated democracy with the country'

While Turkey has made major strides in democratic reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, progress has, in many ways, stalled. Turkey remains "democratic" in

Since 1945, Turkey has witnessed no fewer than three breakdowns of the democratic process (1960, 1971 and 1980) and three retransitions to democracy (1961, 1973

Since the end of the 1980 coup d’état Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to pro

This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period. Employing theoretical